Christ’s word wakes us out of our sleep after our long waiting for his delayed coming. So let your mind not be involved with worries, drowned in fear, or pessimistic in indifference, as the existentialists say, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die." Dear brother, do not be superficial like them, taken up with earthborn cares; but turn toward the other world, and believe in the truth of God and the Last Judgment, which hisses like a rope thrown to wrap around the neck of him who flees, and hunt him.
The Day of the Lord is coming. Are you prepared for the judgment? Do not think that the credit side of your worldly life statement of account can cover your failure and deficiency on the debit side. The light of Christ’s glory will show you that you are imperfect in yourself, and that you are nothing but an imperfect human. Then you will cry: "Help!" when the time of salvation has elapsed. Today, Christ shows you his pierced hands, and binds your polluted soul together with him on the cross that you may die for your soul by your faith in his love, and live in newness of his life.
Watch, know yourself in the light of God, pray humbly, believe in Christ’s promises, stand fast in thanking and confessing your sins, make devout supplication for the others, and pray that the Lord may help you at all times, for only those who pray are worthy of entering the kingdom of God. You are unable to stand in the great glory of Christ, but the Holy Spirit will comfort, establish, and support you if you are born again of water and the Spirit, and become a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
As he then commanded his disciples to flee immediately without return as soon as the destroying armies come, Christ also commands us today to take heed to ourselves, to flee away from our lusts of the flesh, to overcome our earthly cares, to get ready for the great day, and to come to him with unspeakable joy and endless gratitude.